Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-05
REAL ESTATE.
The Combination Land Co.
SPECIAL NO. 4.

SPECIAL NO. 4.
"The old oligarchy OF Greece now abolished
Were jolly and genial and fond of the arts,
Their tastes were refined. their manners were
polished,
They neglected their business, they gave
themselves airs,
Read the poets in Greek, supped their
wine, took their rest, -,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
affairs,
And as for their morals-the least said the
best.
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
then
An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by tne suffrage
And popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora ana
And dozen or more Heathen women whom
you know,
Each finds work at LEUcADIA, naming
street.
The lyre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydice
Now praises LEuCADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when 1t says
ne'er before did see
place where the truth seems lie ana
boast.
Where else is Il spot where the fig and the
wifi grow side by side without water or
care,
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To a God when he breathes the electrical
air?
If man has hundred or two hundred
= handy,
He will buy lot there, not day will he
wait,
For LEucADIA the lovely, the darling the
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
LEUCADiA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with a bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles, San BernardinO and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
LEUcADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges OF ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt of translucent bsryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this MUSHROOM and picture gallery of the
Deity SO attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; 1t can make distant acres &C
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iOdined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look!
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean side property The Japanese ocean
current-the "Gulf Stream" of the Pacifc,
in its southward journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits OF
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude OF Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
! big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
fetal heat and do not bathe in the ocean.
AS for Santa Cruz, there Is a couplet written
| by some shivering pleasure seeker, ON the
walls of a bath house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
ssSanta Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
Nm tsdty, - q appnpb -
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southwark in a direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing in any month
of the Y. ar a real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe,
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyos, so as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns OF Santa
Monica, BallOna, Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
| and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea il
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is nc
ground available for seaside resort until
| the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
/ Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direct
| road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
| the California Southern Railroad from Col
1 Co. do Lott hold n,
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for 9
| lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for residence lots mile and more
| from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
Aqua Hedionda 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and If you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, h'
will make the interview as brief as may bt
consistent with courtesy, Then comes Carls
bad and it is beautiful location, and there
will be a large town there, and prices of lot
are already away up, as they ought to be
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sane
dunes and broken ground until you reacl
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the SaI
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest sit
in the world for an ocean city, ,and on this sit,
is "Leucadia"-the subject of our. sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise: She Is the faires
of all the fair daughters of the sea. She is tn
Venus Amphridite of Southern California
The beach Is hard and level. You can driv
along it for twelve miles. For bathing ther
is no need of lines, for the surf is so light l
would not upset baby, and there being nj
lagoons near there are in consequence nj
stingrays. From the edge of the bluff over
hanging the beach the ground slopes gentl
up to the top of the first ridge, then 1t dc
scends gently t, a valley, through which tn
railroad runs, then there is gradual ascen
to the top of the second ridge mile or s.
away.
The amazing thing about Leucadia, and il
which it differs from every other seaside il
California, is in the wonderful fertility o
its soil. The valley and hill slopes are GOV
cred with Fig Apricot, Eucalyptus ant
| yards and corn fle ds.
Leucadia is in process of preparation TO
the market. Streets and avenues have beef
cleared, graded, staked and named afte
Greek deities and persOnages. A drinking